UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
Creators:
Various
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA. [Item credit line, if given]

Background

Scope and content:

In 1989 UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young acquired the Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection on behalf of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Comprising 3,500 works on paper--drawings, prints, illustrated books, serials, and pamphlets, as well as letters and autographs--the Vogler Cruikshank collection is the most comprehensive holding of works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank in the western United States. Richard Vogler, a distinguished collector and university professor, built his collection of works by and about the Cruikshanks carefully, studiously, and with great dedication over many years.

The Vogler Cruikshank collection offers valuable commentary on nineteenth-century British history, culture, and arts and is a natural companion to other works by British, French, and American caricaturists in the University of California's museum and library holdings. In particular, the Vogler Cruikshank collection complements the extensive collection of caricatures in the Armand Hammer Honore Daumier and Contemporaries Collection at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Significant collections of related nineteenth-century works are also housed at the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Young Research Library. Together with San Marino's Huntington Library collection of books and prints by Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray, the Vogler Cruikshank collection makes Los Angeles a major center for the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and French caricature.

Since the following online collection guide is intended as a general introduction to the Vogler Cruikshank collection, it includes only a representative selection of works. For the purposes of this guide, the selected works are arranged by series or groups related to production type: Drawings and Paintings, Caricatures, Serials, and Illustrated Books. Descriptions of drawings related to prints in the Vogler Cruikshank collection precede entries for the prints.

The guide incorporates research and descriptions by Richard S. Rand and Anne Helmreich for exhibitions drawn from the Vogler Cruikshank collection in 1990 and 1992. Several notes in the guide are informed by Robert L. Patten's detailed, two volume examination of George Cruikshank, as well as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's 1978 catalogue for the traveling exhibition of Vogler's collection. The following bibliography identifies sources most frequently consulted in preparing the guide.

Selected Bibliography

Cohn, Albert M. George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Work Executed During the Years 1806-1877. Annotated by Richard Vogler. 3 vols. London: Office of "The Bookman's Journal," 1924.

Helmreich, Anne. Life in London: Prints and Book Illustrations from the Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection. Exhibition brochure. Los Angeles: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, 1992.

Patten, Robert L. George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art. Volume 1: 1792-1835. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Patten, Robert L. George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art. Volume 2: 1835-1878. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Rand Jr., Richard S. Snuffing Out Boney! Napoleonic Caricatures from the Richard Vogler George Cruikshank Collection. Exhibition brochure. Los Angeles: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, 1990.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art. George Cruikshank: Printmaker (1792-1878); Selections from the Richard Vogler Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Catalogue entries compiled by Joy Mulvaney and catalogue notes by Richard Vogler. Santa Barbara, Ca.: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1978.

University of California, Los Angeles. Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books from the University of California Collections, 1550-1990. Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the Department of Special Collections at the University Research Library, 1997.

Biographical / historical:

George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a popular nineteenth-century British artist, widely recognized for his work as a caricaturist and book illustrator. George and his elder brother Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856) learned the craft of design, collaboration, and printmaking from their father, the noted caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank (1748-1811). George Cruikshank was also greatly influenced by predecessor William Hogarth (1697-1764) and early contemporaries Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) and James Gillray (1757-1815).

George Cruikshank's lengthy career spanned the Regency period (1811-1820) and Victorian era (1837-1901). From age nine to eighty-five, Cruikshank produced thousands of designs in formats ranging from caricatural prints, book illustrations, lottery puffs, and song sheets. Cruikshank's early caricatures provided sharp commentary on British politics and culture. Favorite targets were Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), King George IV (1762-1830), and dandies and trendsetters of the early nineteenth century. When interest in caricatural prints waned in England in the 1820s, Cruikshank shifted to designing and publishing humorous serials, such as "My Sketch Book," and illustrating serialized novels by authors such as Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882). In the last decades of his life, Cruikshank became deeply involved in the Temperance movement, producing images and text directly attributing difficult contemporary social issues--violence, poverty, crime--to the pernicious effects of alcohol.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Layna White
Date Prepared:
© 2002
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from FilemakerPro 5 Database developed by the UC Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive. Date of source: 8/13/2002

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

For publication information, please contact Susan Shin, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, schin@hammer.ucla.edu

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA. [Item credit line, if given]

Location of this collection:
University of California, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201, US
Contact:
(310) 443-7000

Contents

Drawings and Paintings

Contents

Untitled (Laugh when you can), n.d.

Summary

Dates:
n.d.
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor and ink

Indexed terms

Subjects:
boxes (audience spaces); audiences; laughing; weeping

Untitled (Serenade), 1820

Summary

Dates:
1820
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor and graphite on paper embossed with decorative border

Indexed terms

Subjects:
landscapes (representations); serenades; musicians; musical instruments; courtship

Untitled (A group looking into a family album), 1834

Summary

Dates:
1834
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
viewers

Self-Portrait (unfinished), ca. 1850s

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1850s
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Oil, red chalk, and graphite on prepared wood panel

Indexed terms

Subjects:
artists; self-portraits

The Disturbed Congregation, ca. 1849

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1849
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; churches; children (people by age group); beadles; congregation

A Moment Too Late, ca. 1860

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1860
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
executions; squares; spectators

Caricatures

Contents

Boney beating Mack--and Nelson giving him a Whack!! or the British Tars giving Boney his Hearts desire. Ships, Colonies & Commerce, 1805

Summary

Dates:
1805
Creators:
Isaac Cruikshank, 1764-1811, British, and George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic wars; armed forces

Coming to the Point, 1809

Summary

Dates:
1809
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; J. Johnston, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; Napoleonic wars; armed forces

The Allied Bakers or, The Corsican Toad in the hole, 1814

Summary

Dates:
1814
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Hannah Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; military personnel; war allies; ovens

Le Four des Allies ou le Corse pres a etre cuit, ca. 1815

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1815
Creators:
French copy after George Cruikshank

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; military personnel; war allies; ovens

Snuffing Out Boney!, 1814

Summary

Dates:
1814
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Thomas Tegg, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; Cossacks; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Little Boney Gone to Pot, 1814

Summary

Dates:
1814
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Thomas Tegg, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; exiles; demons

Boney's meditations on the Island of St. Helena--or--The Devil addressing the Sun, 1815

Summary

Dates:
1815
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Hannah Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; exiles; demons

Fashionables of 1817, 1817

Summary

Dates:
1817
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Lithograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; dandies; fashion (concept); clothing & dress

Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room, 1818

Summary

Dates:
1818
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; fashion (concept); military uniforms; receptions; drawing rooms

A double-distilled Dandy, 1818

Summary

Dates:
1818
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Lithograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; dandies

A Dandy & a Dandyzette, or a retour de l'Opera, 1818

Summary

Dates:
1818
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; interior; dandies; clothing & dress

Untitled (Sketch for Monstrosities of 1821), ca. 1821

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1821
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor, ink, and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
fashion (concept); clothing & dress; dandies

Untitled (Sketch for Monstrosities of 1821), ca. 1821

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1821
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor, ink, and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
fashion (concept); clothing & dress; dandies

Monstrosities of 1821, 1821

Summary

Dates:
1821
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; dandies; fashion (concept); uniforms; urban parks

Beauties of Brighton, 1826

Summary

Dates:
1826
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; S. Knight, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; dandies; fashion (concept); architecture; Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England)

The Cholic, 1819

Summary

Dates:
1819
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; illnesses; medical illustrations; demons

The Head Ache, 1819

Summary

Dates:
1819
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; illnesses; medical illustrations; demons

Le mal de tete. Hola!..Hola!...pan! pan!....dindrelindin_dindrelindin..hola! hola! hola!!, number 9 from L'imagination, 1833

Summary

Dates:
1833
Creators:
Honore Daumier, 1808-1879, French; Aubert & Cie., Paris, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA.

Physical facet:
Lithograph

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; illnesses; medical illustrations; demons

Gent, No Gent and Regent, 1816

Summary

Dates:
1816
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Thomas Tegg, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

The Radical's Arms, 1819

Summary

Dates:
1819
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; violence; guillotines; radicalism

Radical Quacks giving a New Constitution to John Bull, 1820

Summary

Dates:
1820
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; S. Knight, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; politics; radicalism; John Bull

Ah! sure such a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature--Old Sherry. Dedicated to Old Bags., 1820

Summary

Dates:
1820
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; monarchy; George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830; Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen, Consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821

The Royal Rush Light, 1821

Summary

Dates:
1821
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830; Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen, Consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821; secretaries (public officers)

The Royal Extinguisher, or the King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians, 1821

Summary

Dates:
1821
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830; Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen, Consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821; secretaries (public officers)

The Royal Extinguisher or Gulliver Putting out the Patriots of Lilliput!!!, 1795

Summary

Dates:
1795
Creators:
Isaac Cruikshank, 1764-1811, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; politics

A Lollipop, ally Campagne, a Bull's Eye, and a Brandy Ball, 1822

Summary

Dates:
1822
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; ethics

Making Decent!! A hint to the Society for the Suppression of Vice, 1822

Summary

Dates:
1822
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; censorship; urban parks; public art; monuments; sculpture; Achilles

Plucking a Goose, ca. 1824

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1824
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Pen and brown ink

Indexed terms

Subjects:
wealth; actors; marriage; geese

Plucking a Goose!!!, 1825

Summary

Dates:
1825
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; John Fairburn, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; wealth; actors; marriage; geese

The Four Mr. Prices, 1825

Summary

Dates:
1825
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; economics; anatomy

A Scene in the Farce of "Lofty Projects" as performed with great success for the Benefit & amusement of John Bull Ano D 1825, 1825

Summary

Dates:
1825
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; George Humphrey, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; hot-air balloons; transportation; economics; fraud

The Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of All Nations, by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the 1st of May, 1851, 1851

Summary

Dates:
1851
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; David Bogue, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Crystal Palace (London, England); Great Exhibition (1851: London, England); world's fairs; exhibitions; ceremonies

Serials

Contents

(The Fiends Frying Pan), ca. 1832

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1832
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Pen and brown ink and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
devils; figures (representations); animals

The Fiends Frying Pan or Annual Festival of Tom Foolery and Vice, Under the Sanction of the Lord Mayor and the Worshipful Court of Alderman!--in the Age of Intellect!!, 1832

Summary

Dates:
1832
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
fairs; festivals; devils; vice; drunkenness

Zoological Sketches, ca. 1833

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1833
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
birds; anthropomorphic; animals; dandies; fashion (concept); barbers

(Zoological Sketches), ca. 1833

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1833
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; heads (representations)

Plate 1 (Zoological Sketches) from My Sketch Book, number IV, 1834

Summary

Dates:
1834
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; fashion (concept); dandies

A Wapping Landlady, 1832

Summary

Dates:
1832
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Pen and ink, watercolor, and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
innkeepers; landlords; embracing

Plate 3 from My Sketch Book, number VI, 1834

Summary

Dates:
1834
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures

The Gin Juggarnath, ca. 1835

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1835
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
vehicles; drunkenness; temperance; deaths

The Gin Juggarnath or, the Worship of the Great Spirit of the age!! from My Sketch Book, number VII, 1835

Summary

Dates:
1835
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
vehicles; drunkenness; temperance; deaths

(Premium, Par, Discount), ca. 1845

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1845
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
railroads; anthropomorphic; boilers (HVAC components)

The Demon of 1845 (or Premium, Par, Discount) from George Cruikshank's Table Book, number 5, 1845

Summary

Dates:
1845
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; [Bradbury and Evans, London], publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
caricatures; railroads; anthropomorphic; boilers (HVAC components)

Mr. John Bull in Keeley's character of Willibald in the popular extravaganza of the Bottle Imp, ca. 1845

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1845
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
John Bull

Mr. John Bull, in Keeley's celebrated character of "Willibald," in the Popular Extravaganza of "The Bottle Imp" from George Cruikshank's Table Book, number 11, 1845

Summary

Dates:
1845
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; [Bradbury and Evans, London], publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph

Indexed terms

Subjects:
John Bull; railroads; investments

Mr. John Bull in a Quandary, or the anticipated effects of the Railway Calls from George Cruikshank's Table Book, number 11, 1845

Summary

Dates:
1845
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; [Bradbury and Evans, London], publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
John Bull; railroads; investments

Illustrated Books

Contents

Mr. Simmons in the Character of Mother Goose, frontispiece to Fairburn's Description of the Popular and Comic New Pantomime, called Harlequin and Mother Goose, or the Golden Egg, 1806

Summary

Dates:
1806
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; John Fairburn, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
actors; costumes; Mother Goose; geese

Title page, German Popular Stories, Volume I, translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition, 1823

Summary

Dates:
1823
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Charles Baldwyn, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
hearths; storytellers; laughing

Title page, German Popular Stories, Volume II, translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition, 1826

Summary

Dates:
1826
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; James Robins & Co., London, and Joseph Robins Jr. & Co., Dublin, publishers

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
hearths; storytellers; children (by age group)

Private Treasures and Sentiment, undivided proofs for Sketches by Boz, 1836

Summary

Dates:
1836
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Scope and content:

From a bound album of undivided proofs before letters of illustrations for "Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People," a compilation of occasional papers by Charles Dickens. In 1836 John Macrone, London, published Dickens's papers with sixteen illustrations by Cruikshank in two volumes. The following year, Macrone published "Sketches by Boz, the Second Series" (first edition), a second collection of papers in one volume, with ten illustrations by Cruikshank. In addition to the bound album of undivided proofs shown here, the Vogler Cruikshank collection includes examples of the published book: the first series in two volumes (second edition), the Second Series in one volume, and the "new, complete" edition published in twenty parts by Chapman and Hall, London.

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
MacBeth, King of Scotland, 11th cent.; backstages; actors

Title page (Second Series) and Seven Dials, undivided proofs for Sketches by Boz, 1837

Summary

Dates:
1837
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
hot-air balloons; street scenes

Title page, The Bachelor's Own Book, Being the Progress of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.) in the Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, and also in Search of Health and Happiness, 1844

Summary

Dates:
1844
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Scope and content:

The Vogler Cruikshank collection also holds an uncolored example of this book, as well as an American edition published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, and examples of an edition published by David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, six years after Cruikshank's death. In addition to the books, the Collection includes a letter from Cruikshank to David Bogue, dated July 17, 1844, announcing he will soon finish the last plate for Lambkin.

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
humor; life cycles (human); courtship

The Bottle is Brought Out for the First Time: The Husband Induces His Wife "Just to Take a Drop," plate I from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Scope and content:

The Vogler Cruikshank collection has several variations of "The Bottle" and "The Drunkard's Children," including a set of painted lantern slides on glass, used by Temperance promoters to illustrate lectures.

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; dwellings; families

He is Discharged from His Employment for Drunkenness: They Pawn Their Clothes to Supply the Bottle, plate II from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; dwellings; families; poverty; alcoholism

An Execution Sweeps Off the Greater Part of Their Furniture: They Comfort Themselves with the Bottle, plate III from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; dwellings; families; poverty; alcoholism

Unable to Obtain Employment, They are Driven by Poverty into the Streets to Beg, and by This Means They Still Supply the Bottle, plate IV from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
street scenes; families; poverty; unemployment; begging; alcoholism

Cold, Misery, and Want, Destroy Their Youngest Child: They Console Themselves with the Bottle, plate V from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; dwellings; families; deaths; alcoholism

Fearful Quarrels, and Brutal Violence, Are the Natural Consequences of the Frequent Use of the Bottle, plate VI from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; dwellings; families; violence; alcoholism

The Husband, in a State of Furious Drunkenness, Kills His Wife with the Instrument of All Their Misery, plate VII from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; dwellings; families; deaths; grief; alcoholism

The Bottle Has Done Its Work--It Has Destroyed the Infant and the Mother, It Has Brought the Son and the Daughter to Vice and to the Streets, and Has Left the Father a Hopeless Maniac, plate VIII from The Bottle, 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
psychiatric hospitals; mental disorders; inmates

The Bottle, plate II (He is Discharged from His Employment for Drunkenness: They Pawn Their Clothes to Supply the Bottle), 1847

Summary

Dates:
1847
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Glyphograph with tint

Indexed terms

Subjects:
interior; dwellings; families; poverty; alcoholism

The father proposes to lose the children; They leave Hop-O'My Thumb and his brothers in the wood, frontispiece to Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots, 1853

Summary

Dates:
1853
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; David Bogue, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
fairy tales; families; abandoned children; giants; woods

Cinderella in the chimney-corner, frontispiece to Cinderella and the Glass Slipper, 1854

Summary

Dates:
1854
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching with hand coloring

Indexed terms

Subjects:
fairy tales; hearths; Cinderella; dwarfs

Shaving a Ghost!, ca. 1861

Summary

Dates:
ca. 1861
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Watercolor and graphite

Indexed terms

Subjects:
barbers; shaving

Shaving a Ghost, frontispiece to Holidays with Hobgoblins and Talk of Strange Things, 1861

Summary

Dates:
1861
Creators:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Dudley Costello, author; John Camden Hotten, London, publisher

Background

Custodial history:

Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.

Physical facet:
Etching

Indexed terms

Subjects:
barbers; shaving